Pharma Industry Making a Move

Moving from batch to continuous processing may not seem like a major issue, but that’s not the case in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Continuous processing works fine in most high-volume industries with well-known processes.

Digital Transformation

The term “digital transformation” has become a buzzword lacking clear meaning. This ARC Advisory Group Insight offers clarification for industrial organizations in an asset performance management (APM) context. We’ve segmented digital transformation into three categories and pro-vided case examples of each to provide strategic guidance as to where organizations can focus their programs. These will also help provide clarity for communications and avoid obfuscation. The three categories are:

Asset performance management (APM) systems are designed to improve the reliability and availability of physical assets in manufacturing plants.

BASF’s Reliability Center employs manufacturing intelligence to provide expert support to sites to ensure reliable operation.

Digitization offers many potential benefits for improving efficiencies and reducing the costs associated with exploration and production.

The Industrial Internet Consortium's (IIC’s) Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) is part of a series of technical documents describing that organization's view on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).